They had come prepared from the start. After all, they knew they were entering an unlicensed underground hospital, a place deeply entangled with the mafia and other figures from the underworld. A confrontation had always been a high possibility, which was precisely why each of them had armed themselves beforehand.
Earlier, those very same guns had been used to intimidate the injured Northern Mafia members, forcing cooperation through sheer pressure. Now, the situation had reversed.
Muzzles were raised and aimed steadily, shifting the balance of power in an instant as the subordinates positioned themselves behind the thugs, effectively pinning them between two armed groups. What had looked like a one-sided threat moments ago was now a precarious deadlock, one that heavily tilted back in Zhane's favor.
